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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” DeMillo carries on with several themes. Kindle location 1093).

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 1

Bryan Alexander

This week we’re discussing the first chapter of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ). A larger theme, hit more forcefully in the book’s introduction, is broadening access to higher education.

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

Some discussion on Twitter occurred as well, along with several good questions, which you can examine in this Storify. Access and convenience remain major motivations that bring learners to open content. After discussion via chat and Twitter we settled on professional development. professions. It’s about self-motivated learning.

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Revolution in Higher Education: A Social Contract

Bryan Alexander

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing the last full chapter, “A Social Contract.” and Coursera’s Mission (yes, capitalized there).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics. Innovation!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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